Water shed plate for clothes wringers



y 1934- w. J. LA CASSE 1.957,603

WATER SHED PLATE FOR CLOTHES WRINGERS Filed June 50, 1935 Z b "W A? H T; f? ,2 a 2 2? INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

Patented May 8, 1934 UNITED STATES WATER SHED PLATE FOR CLOTHES WRINGERS William J. La Casse, Duluth, Minn, assignor t Zenith Machine Company, Duluth, Minn, a corporation of Minnesota Application June 30, 1933, Serial No. 678,359%

1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in power washing machines and has special reference to what is known as the water shed plate upon the wringer attachment of such a machine.

The principal object is to produce simple means for the automatic adjustment of the water shed plate as the wringing operation is reversed.

Other objects and advantages of the novel structure will appear in the following description thereof.

Referring now to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this application, and wherein like reference characters indicate like parts:

Figure l is an elevation partly in section and partly broken away of the power head of an ordinary washing machine upon which the wringer attachment is supported.

Figure 2 is a phantom perspective view of the relation of the cooperative parts involving the invention.

Figure 3 is an elevation of the friction spring pintle for operating the water shed plate.

In the drawing, 1 represents the power head of a common washing machine, surmounted by the control lever 2, which, as is well known, when swung in one direction at right angles to the position illustrated, will operate the wringer rolls in one direction, and when returned to the position illustrated will throw the rolls out of operation, and when swung in the direction opposite to that first mentioned will operate the rolls in the reverse direction.

Now all such wringers are equipped with a water shed apron, a portion of which is illustrated at 3,

so that when clothes are being passed through the wringer the water therefrom will be directed by the apron either to one side or the other, and frequently to some extent both. However, many such wringers at least are further equipped with a water shed plate illustrated at 4, intermediate of the apron and lowermost roll 5, the upper roll being indicated at 6, and such plates are controlled by a thumb lever 6 upon one of its pivotal stub shafts and usually upon that one of said shafts at the outermost end of the plate as illustrated at '7, the innermost end of the plate being mounted upon a somewhat similar shaft 8 though in this instance I elongate this latter shaft 8 and bend it upwardly at right angles as at 9, making this bent up portion hollow as clearly illustrated. In so doing I have found it expedient to provide an elongated extension bearing as at 10 upon the innermost end of the apron support or connection to the under side of the wringer assembly.

In such power head and wringer units there is usually employed a coupling nut or union as at 11, it having a compound bore, as it were, being flattened upon opposite sides to mount the fiattened ends of the lower wringer shaft 12 and the flattened end. of the power shaft 13, it being preferred that these elongated rectangular sockets in the coupling be disposed at right angles, as clearly illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawing. Now, inasmuch as this coupling must rotate with the power and wringer shafts which may be optionally operated in different directions as previously described, the connection between such coupling and the water shed plate to make it similarly function is accomplished by forming a comparatively small annular groove about the center of the coupling, about and within which, preferably before being assembled intermediate of the wringer and power head, is snapped the spring pintle 14 with the eye of the latter snugly fitted within the groove about the coupling. Then when ultimately assembled the pintle end of the spring is slipped into the upturned hollow terminus 9 of the shaft 3 supporting the water shed plate, so that when the shafts and coupling are rotated in a clockwise direction, see Figure 2, at the initial part of such rotation the water shed plate will be instantly tipped in the correspondingly correct position to shed all the water coming from the clothes being wrung to the proper side of the apron, and a continuation of the rotation of the coupling with the shafts accomplishes only a slipping of the coupling within the eye of the spring pintle and gently biasing same to its proper position.

Obviously the hole in the turned up portion of the shaft 8 is sufficiently large in respect to the pintle portion of the spring pintle to permit of free movement therein when at a slight angle thereto.

From the above it is evident that I have provided exceedingly simple means applicable to any form of power driven wringer whereby the water shed plate is automatically adjusted.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

In combination a wringer having a water shed plate therebeneath, a reversible shaft for operating the wringer in either direction, rotatable supports for said plate one of said supports being bent upwardly and having an axial hole therein, and a contractile pintle ring about said shaft, one terminal of said ring extendable within the hollow end of the bent up support for said plate whereby the rotation of said operating shaft in either direction will tip said plate.

WILLIAM J. LA CASSE. 

